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PipeLineNews Archives: January 2015

Where Is The Nigerian Response? Chadian Forces Engage Boko Haram

January 31, 2015 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org – On Thursday, elements of Chad’s armed forces clashed with Boko Haram terrorists who had dug themselves into the village of Malumfatori, Nigeria.

Reports – especially of a military nature - coming out of the country are always suspect, especially if the government is the source, but it seems clear that at least one Chadian jet fighter bombed hardened Boko Haram positions leaving numerous dead and wounded in its wake. There has been no indication that the town has been re-taken as we go to press.

Boko Haram [the name translates as “Western education is forbidden,”] has carried on a bloody and protracted war mainly in Northern Nigeria to forcibly convert or kill non-Muslims and/or Muslims which the group considers takfir. Abubakar Shekau, the group’s fanatical leader has stated that his goal is no less than to create an African caliphate, modeled on that of ISIS which will [and is in some areas] operating under his brutal implementation of the Shari’a.

With almost zero resistance provided by the feckless government of Goodluck Jonathan Boko Haram has continually expanded both the territory in which it operates and the size and audacity of its attacks. The group’s most recent raid decimated the town of Baga, killing approximately 2,000 in a process which essentially left the town as a heap of rubble.

Boko Haram if nothing else is ambitious in its relentless, atrocity laden war and so for the second time in a week it’s attacked Maiduguri, a key city of 2 million. As has been the pattern, at the first sign of the terrorists the Nigerian “security forces” deserted their posts, many dropping the weapons they had and provided no resistance.

Despite Nigeria’s tremendous oil wealth [which has been seriously impacted by the drop in the price of crude] it’s clear that Jonathan is sending his men into battle often without sufficient weapons and ammunition. This has led to demonstrations by the soldiers’ wives, understandably objecting to their men being sent into battle absent the necessary equipment.

Fortunately an ad-hoc civil defense militia made up of the citizens of Maiduguri, successfully repelled the assault using only improvised weapons and hunting rifles, thus proving that Boko isn’t invincible and can be defeated, assuming there is the will.

BREAKING: Was Gunman Who Stormed Dutch TV Studio A Muslim? – Reportedly Identified As Tarik Zahzah Whose Father Is Egyptian

By BEILA RABINOWITZ

January 30, 2015 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org – Our associate and my writing partner, Ms. Rabinowitz caught this item and translated the text of some of the news reports as well as the attacker’s demands. This is rough copy but the event is more than important enough to rush this to press. Ms. Rabinowitz is also the proprietor of Militant Islam Monitor, a well-known anti jihad news site.

Only the foreign media is on this story, below a scattering of some of the information available as of this writing.

“The 19 year old student Tarik Zahzah whose father is Egyptian and has a Dutch mother will be held in detention for at least 14 more days. He barged into the studio with a gun (which later was determined to be fake) demanding airtime to "discuss major world affairs". He claimed to be from a hackers collective threatening that radioactive bombs had been placed around the country. He studied Molecular Biology and Technology. A fellow student described him as a "loner". He is facing 20 years to life imprisonment for his actions.

Saudi King Punks Obama

By RAYMOND IBRAHIM

January 28, 2015 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org – The Arab world is having a chuckle on social media, saying that new Saudi King Salman just spurned U.S. President Obama during his recent visit to the Arabian kingdom.

They point to the video clip below. [sorry, video has myseriously disappeared from the 'Net, i's only a coincidence] In it, Obama and first lady Michele are standing by the king and the U.S. president shakes hands with various people.

Then a Saudi man approaches them and Obama raises hands to shake, but the man ignores him, addressing the king. The king says a word to Obama and instantly takes his leave, followed by his entire entourage — leaving Obama and Michele just standing there.

Iran’s Proxy Army Attacks Israel, Celebration In Beirut

January 28, 2015 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org – After the noon hour today, a Hezbollah unit rocketed an IDF military convoy, killing two and wounding 7.

“The IDF has confirmed that during today’s attack, Hezbollah militants fired 5 anti-tank missiles at the patrolling force near Mt. Dov. One soldier and one officer were killed…Seven additional IDF soldiers were injured, two of them moderately. The injured soldiers were evacuated to a hospital.” [source, Two Soldiers Killed In Hezbollah Attack, IDF Blog]

The Iranian backed army quickly claimed responsibility for the ambush which took place in Northern Israel’s Golan Heights. In a second incident, the jihadists launched a mortar attack against Israeli military positions near Mt. Hermon. So far no casualties have been reported.

An IDF spokesman announced that in retaliation, Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon were then hit in a combined operation featuring artillery, air strikes and ground forces. [see, Live Updates, Two Soldiers Killed In Hezbollah Attack, IDF Blog]

Hezbollah supporters in Beirut and other terrorist strongholds celebrated the carnage by passing out sweets and enjoying sumptuous meals, “People were celebrating with baklava and fireworks…” [source, Isabel Kershner and Anne Barnar, Hezbollah Attack Kills Israeli Soldiers Near Lebanon, Raising Fears of Escalation, New York Times]

"I am not at all afraid; Hezbollah's actions are blessed", a southern Lebanon resident stated. "Israel should suffer losses, just like we have". Other residents also supported Hezbollah's action, calling to keep revenging last week's airstrike in Syria, in which Hezbollah officials were killed…” [source, Yael Kline, Beirut Celebrates Deaths Of IDF Soldiers, Jerusalem Online]

Given Israel’s measured response today it’s unclear as we go to press whether the violence will escalate into more general warfare, but PM Netanyahu has warned the group to note what happened to HAMAS in Gaza after a long series of unprovoked rocket attacks by the group against civilian targets.

PEGIDA - Patriotic Europeans Against The Islamization Of The West

January 26, 2015 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org – In the aftermath of the recent Islamic terror attacks in Paris, major fissures in Europe’s Fourth Reich thought control experiment - multiculturalism - are rapidly appearing.

This isn’t to suggest that these deviations from the standard party line instantly formed in reaction to the Charlie Hebdo and subsequent Jewish supermarket massacres; it’s just that nationalist and nativist [some are referring to them as survivalist] sentiments on the Continent have been so stigmatized that up until now few would admit to their “unease with Muslim immigration” in public.

Europe’s Draconian hate speech laws play a huge part as an enforcement mechanism against any departure from politically approved speech, a very wide plank in the progressive/Marxist agenda.

Undaunted, dissenters are now learning one of the most basic lessons in political advocacy. What one might be prosecuted for as an individual [example, Dutch MP Geert Wilders’ upcoming “hate speech” trial for suggesting that there are too many Muslim Moroccans in the Netherlands or Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff an Austrian based lecturer prosecuted for her vocal opposition to Islamic ideology] is much harder to do when “offenders” swell into public demonstrations comprised of hundreds, thousands or in the case of the French reaction to Hebdo, millions.

Hate crime legislation is largely directed not at protecting minorities [though that is the stated narrative] but in providing an avenue whereby traditionalism can be criminalized. Thus the laws accomplish their main goal, falling most heavily as they do on Caucasian, Christian heterosexuals whose opinions run counter to what “thought criminal” Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff called, the “Global Ministry of Truth” [please refer to Our Present Is Your Future ]

Thus, non-Muslims reading verbatim passages from Islam’s sacred books is an indictable offense but, “Depicting Jesus sodomizing his apostles” is not considered to be a “degradation of religious symbols” in Austria. Of course stating the historic fact that Muhammad married a six-year old girl is hate personified, at least in Eurothink. [source, Thomas Landen, Hate Crimes and Equality Before the Law, Gatestone Institute]

NY Times Can’t Resist Impulse To Bash Jews And Bow Before Obama’s Throne

January 25, 2015 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org – In another whiny editorial, the 1/23 edition of the New York Times accuses Israeli PM Netanyahu of using his scheduled address to Congress to bolster his credentials in the upcoming parliamentary elections. As the Times sees it, Boehner and Netanyahu are trying to “undermine” the administration’s nonexistent anti-terror strategy especially regarding Iran and its nuke ambitions.

“…Mr. Netanyahu, facing an election on March 17, apparently believes that winning the applause of Congress by rebuking Mr. Obama will bolster his standing as a leader capable of keeping Israel safe. Mr. Boehner seems determined to use whatever means is available to undermine and attack Mr. Obama on national security policy…” [source, Editorial, Playing Politics On Iran , NYT]

When it comes to protecting Obama the Times’ boys are hysterical little girls, shrieking that John Boehner [despite a 6 year record of being comically deferential to the CIC] “…seems determined to use whatever means is available to undermine and attack Mr. Obama on national security policy.”

It would be amusing to push the NYT sock puppet editorial board to define, in simple terms what Obama is trying to do internationally to quell the Islamic jihad. Our guess is that answer would be incomprehensible because Team O can’t point to a single achievement in foreign relations:

He lost Iraq & is preparing to lose Afghanistan

A Boko Haram led caliphate threatens to overrun North Africa.

In every theater the sit rep is far worse than when he took office.

The entire Muslim world is ablaze, with the extraordinary exception of Egypt now led by el-Sisi. But if it would have worked out the way Obama intended, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohammed Morsi would still be pushing the country towards a theocratic dictatorship, allied with Iran instead of being in jail, awaiting trial on charges of sedition.

Regarding the Arab/Israeli conflict, team O has clearly sided with the HAMAS supporting, so-called Palestinians.

Presidet Obama has estranged nearly all of America's traditional allies and his seething hatred for Netanyahu and Israel are palpable.

Iran draws ever closer to its dream of producing nuclear weapons as the WH turns a blind eye while conducting pretend negotiations.

The Continent is locked in a deadly struggle with its Muslim immigrants who are leaving a trail of blood and gore across Europe.

U.S. borders are increasingly insecure, as is our power grid.

The threat of domestic Islamic terrorism in the U.S. has increased alarmingly under this president, the Ft. Hood massacre, Boston Marathon bombing, the beheading of an Oklahoma woman, the Little Rock military recruiting murder, dozens of foiled bombing plots and a landscape of increasingly radicalized Wahhabist mosques all point to failed leadership.

To put it kindly, this is not a record of achievement.

But the Times’ outdoes itself in asserting the most outlandish of its claims for the end of the piece – stating, absent a shred of evidence, that Team O and his weak sisters across the Atlantic consider Israel to be an ally, “Can Mr. Netanyahu really afford to dismiss such allies?”

The West: Desensitized to Islamic Violence

By RAYMOND IBRAHIM

January 23, 2015 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org – Following the January 7 massacre at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, where Islamic gunmen killed a dozen people because the satirical magazine had mocked the prophet of Islam, one thing has become clear: the amount of atrocities committed in the name of Islam all around the world have become so frequent, so ubiquitous, that other, lesser hostilities by Muslims, which might once have been newsworthy, are now completely falling by the wayside, seen as minor and insignificant—commonplace, almost expected.

Thus, while Islamic gunmen were massacring “infidels” in Paris (and elsewhere), “everyday Muslims” in Europe were engaging in less dramatic, but no less significant behavior.

On Friday, January 9—Friday being when Muslims get most riled during mosque sermons and when non-Muslims are frequently attacked—“foreigners” in Italy, believed to be Muslims, attacked a man kneeling in prayer before the statue of the Virgin Mary, tore the photo of a loved one from his hand, and then broke and urinated on the Virgin Mary statue . By the time police arrived at the chapel the attackers had already fled…

The Jihadist Threat To The Netherlands, Belgium and France

By EMERSON VERMAAT

January 20, 2015 – Rotterdam, Netherlands – PipeLineNews.org - On November 12, 2014, Dutch suicide bomber “Abu Abdullah Al-Hollandi” blew himself up at the entrance of a federal police headquarters in west Baghdad, Iraq. Eleven people were killed and 23 were wounded in the attack for which ISIS has claimed responsibility. There are now at least 180 Dutch jihadists who’ve joined terrorist groups such as ISIS (IS) and Al-Nusra, the Syrian branch of Al-Qaeda. Thirty-five of them have returned to Holland, and they pose a very serious security threat; they’re ticking time bombs. “We can’t monitor all of them,” Dutch security and police officials say.

Abu Abdullah Al-Hollandi’s real name was Sultan Berzel, a Dutch-Turkish teenager from the southern city of Maastricht, a hotbed of crime and jihadism in the Netherlands. Before traveling to Syria, Sultan left a farewell letter for his father Abdessamad Berzel which read in part, “Do not worry, Allah will take care of me.” Then he made several phone calls to his father who was indeed deeply worried about his son’s fate. In his first phone call Sultan told his father that he was in Raqqa, Syria, the so-called capital of the “Islamic State” (IS). Sultan’s last call to his father was on November 9, 2014, “he told me he was in Mosul in Iraq,” Abdessamad Berzel said in a TV interview. “He wanted a longer conversation with me. I suspect it was because he knew it would be our last conversation on the phone.” It was only three days later that Sultan Berzel detonated his suicide bomb in Baghdad, bringing the tally to four jihadist Netherlanders who have blown themselves up in either Syria or Iraq.

If a Dutch suicide bomber can kill police officers in Baghdad, he can do the same, or worse for that matter, in a Dutch, Belgian, French or German city. Police officers were recently targeted by well armed and well trained jihadists in France and Belgium. Three police officers died in Paris. Franck Brinsolaro and Ahmed Merabet died on January 7, 2015, during the terrorist attack on the editorial office of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. The attackers – two French Algerian brothers named Saïd and Chérif Kouachi – shouted “Allahu Akhbar!” and “We avenged the prophet.” The prime targets for the Al-Qaeda terrorists, though, were the magazine’s cartoonists, especially editor-in-chief Stéphane Charbonnier whom the terrorists and Al-Qaeda in Yemen held responsible for “offensive” cartoons of the Islamic prophet Mohammed. Many Muslims believe that offending the prophet Mohammed deserves the death penalty.

One day before he killed four Jewish victims in the kosher grocery store in Paris, Amedy Coulibaly, a radicalized second-generation Malian immigrant and a notorious criminal, killed female police officer Clarissa Jean-Philippe.

Although he had never traveled to Syria, Coulibaly had sworn allegiance to the ruthless ISIS-leader Al-Baghdadi. Police also found ISIS-flags, kalashnikovs and explosives in his apartment.

Lou Dobbs Discussing Muslim No-Go Zones In The United States

January 20, 2015 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - What follows is a remarkably frank piece featuring Fox News' Lou Dobbs who has the commendable habit of not pulling any punches. In the below video Dobbs details the explosion of Shari'a centric, jihadist groups across the United Sates.

Some of the members of these sleeper cells are actively training for guerilla warfare, all of them need to be rooted out and destroyed.

Note the heavy presence of Islamist communities in the North East section of the United States. One might think that since some of these sleeper cells are frightening close to DC that national legislators would have a better handle on the threat posed by Islamic jihad by indigenous terrorists.

Chad And Cameroon Move To Retake Nigerian Town Of Baga, President Jonathan Befuddled

January 19, 2015 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org – Nigeria is probably the least effective of any major African country when it comes to maintaining internal security. The blame for this can be laid squarely at the feet of President Goodluck Jonathan who has done little to defeat the brutal jihad which has been waged against the oil-rich nation by the Muslim terror group Boko Haram over the last 5 years.

Though hard figures are impossible to determine, a rough body count would indicate that over 13,000 have been killed since the beginning of last year, and a similar number seriously wounded in Abubakar Shekau’s bloody campaign to create an African caliphate operating under the Shari’a.

“Over the last 5 days, Boko Haram has carried out what is believed to be the worst massacre in its bloody history. The carnage took place in the town of Baga [former population 20,000] located in Northern Borno State, Nigeria. Borno is the geographical power base of the rebel army and though Baga was nominally under the protection of a “multinational” military base, the town was razed to the ground and many of its residents murdered as soldiers fled the onrushing terrorists.

Desertion in the face of Boko Haram attacks has become the norm throughout the country as the central government of Goodluck Jonathan has proved unwilling to resist the group militarily. There have been rampant complaints by Nigerian security forces that they lack even the most basic supplies with which to engage the enemy. Reports abound of units being sent into battle without rifles and/or ammunition, which has caused protests by the soldier’s wives who refuse to allow their men to be fed into the meat grinder with no means of defense.

Though the country supposedly has some main battle tanks [many of which are older than the average soldier] APCs and field artillery there is little evidence that this hardware has been widely employed when confronting a better armed, far more highly motivated enemy. Dispatches coming from the Jonathan government have zero credibility because it's been caught lying far too often. Unbelievably, it’s claimed on at least three different occasions to have killed terror leader Abubakar Shekau only for him to subsequently appear in mocking videos seeming none the worse for wear. Shekau has also used these videos to directly threaten the United States…”

In keeping with his policy of “leading” by doing nothing at all, President Obama has refused to provide any assistance [either technical or in the form of military hardware] to the besieged state.

“Tiger Team” To Debut Strategy For Destroying Global Jihad

January 15, 2015 – San Francisco, CA – PipeLineNews.org – Tomorrow the Center for Security Policy will host a lunch [12:00 – 1:30] at the National Press Club in DC during which national defense experts will present a plan to combat and defeat Islamic terrorism.

The craven jihadist attacks which have recently taken place in France, Belgium, Mali, Nigeria, Somalia, Kenya, Australia and Canada have demonstrated that the West lacks a unifying policy to defeat and destroy this ever more virulent threat.

Though each of these jihadist attacks is an entity unto itself, all of the perpetrators share the same ideology and goal, the imposition of Shari’a on a worldwide basis and the establishment of a caliphate – an Islamic theocratic dictatorship which draws its authority from the holiest Muslim texts including the Qur’an.

The Center for Security Policy, which prides itself on being the “Special Forces in the War of Ideas,” has sponsored in recent months an informal “tiger team” modeled after an actual "Spec-Ops A-Team." The individuals comprising the action group were selected for their long-time national security expertise and are adapting the strategy that defeated the last totalitarian ideology that sought our destruction, Soviet Communism, as a template.

Participating Members of the Secure Freedom Strategy “Tiger Team” include:

Lieutenant General William G. “Jerry” Boykin (U.S. Army, Ret.), former senior Special Operator and Deputy Under Secretary of Defense

Admiral James A. “Ace” Lyons (U.S. Navy, Ret.), former Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet and father of the Navy Red Cell counterterrorist unit.

Aljazeera Blames Paris Muslim Terror Attack On…French “Islamophobia”

January 14, 2015 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org – Apparently never tiring of its role as defender of the indefensible, Aljazeera is today offering the risible claim that, “experts say disenfranchisement, Islamophobia make youth more susceptible to recruitment by extremist groups.” [source, Hakeem Muhammad, Is France failing its first-generation Muslim immigrants? ]

Coming on the same day that Anjem Choudary [the UK imam who was arrested in a terror investigation in September and in a typical show of British spinelessness, was subsequently released] called the newest issue of Charlie Hebdo “ an act of war,” Aljazeera is also blaming the victims of last week’s murderous jihadist attack in Paris which left 17 dead.

In a calculated incendiary action taken immediately after the massacre, Choudary issued a manifesto of sorts which is as defiant as it is revelatory of the true nature of Islam:

“Contrary to popular misconception, Islam does not mean peace but rather means submission to the commands of Allah alone. Therefore, Muslims do not believe in the concept of freedom of expression, as their speech and actions are determined by divine revelation and not based on people’s desires.” [source, Andre Walker, Radical Imam Anjem Choudary Calls Charlie Hebdo Front Page ‘Act Of War’ , Breitbart News]

Aljazeera’s article is more of the same, excusing the real cause - a foolish multicultural society whose moral cowardice has allowed Shari’a centric Muslim enclaves to fester into no-go zones for French law enforcement [such as it is, bicycle bound and unarmed] - and thus become domestic terror incubators.

That Aljazeera is an official jihadist mouthpiece shouldn’t be surprising since the publication is owned by Qatar, a prime financier of terrorism, for example funding Syria’s Al Nusra Front .

Boko Haram Massacre In Baga, Nigeria - Thousands Feared Killed

January 11, 2015 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org – Over the last 5 days, Boko Haram has carried out what is believed to be the worst massacre in its bloody history. The carnage took place in the town of Baga [former population 20,000] located in Northern Borno State, Nigeria.

Borno is the geographical power base of the rebel army and though Baga was nominally under the protection of a “multinational” military base, the town was razed to the ground and many of its residents murdered as soldiers fled the onrushing terrorists.

Desertion in the face of Boko Haram attacks has become the norm throughout the country as the central government of Goodluck Jonathan has proved unwilling to resist the group militarily. There have been rampant complaints by Nigerian security forces that they lack even the most basic supplies with which to engage the enemy. Reports abound of units being sent into battle without rifles and/or ammunition, which has caused protests by the soldier’s wives who refuse to allow their men to be fed into the meat grinder with no means of defense.

Though the country supposedly has some main battle tanks [many of which are older than the average soldier] APCs and field artillery there is little evidence that this hardware has been widely employed when confronting a better armed, far more highly motivated enemy.

Accurate accounts of this incident are largely unavailable. Those generated by the government have no basis in fact and those leaking out through media sources often rely on anecdotal information by observers who themselves are fleeing the onrushing mayhem and hence have no overall understanding of exactly what is happening.

Dispatches coming from the Jonathan government have zero credibility because it's been caught lying far too often. Unbelievably, it’s claimed on at least three different occasions to have killed terror leader Abubakar Shekau only for him to subsequently appear in mocking videos seeming none the worse for wear. Shekau has also used these videos to directly threaten the United States.

Because of this, casualty reports coming from Baga refugees are only estimates, yet entirely too many of these accounts are similarly horrendous, referring to “miles of territory littered with rotting corpses,” so the high-end estimate of 2,000 killed may indeed be entirely accurate. Regardless it’s clear from the obvious devastation that this was the most deadly attack yet by the ferocious Muslim army.

January 10, 2015 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org – Speaking before Al-Azhar and the Awqaf Ministry on New Year’s Day, 2015, and in connection to Prophet Muhammad’s upcoming birthday, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, a vocal supporter for a renewed vision of Islam, made what must be his most forceful and impassioned plea to date on the subject.

Sisi during his New Year’s Day speech before Al Azhar

Among other things, Sisi said that the “corpus of [Islamic] texts and ideas that we have sacralized over the years” are “antagonizing the entire world”; that it is not “possible that 1.6 billion people [reference to the world’s Muslims] should want to kill the rest of the world’s inhabitants—that is 7 billion—so that they themselves may live”; and that Egypt (or the Islamic world in its entirety) “is being torn, it is being destroyed, it is being lot—and it is being lost by our own hands.”

“I am referring here to the religious clerics. We have to think hard about what we are facing—and I have, in fact, addressed this topic a couple of times before. It’s inconceivable that the thinking that we hold most sacred should cause the entire umma [Islamic world] to be a source of anxiety, danger, killing and destruction for the rest of the orld. Impossible! That thinking—I am not saying “religion” but “thinking”—that corpus of texts and ideas that we have sacralized over the centuries, to the point that departing from them has become almost impossible, is antagonizing the entire world. It’s antagonizing the entire world!”

Is it possible that 1.6 billion people [Muslims] should want to kill the rest of the world’s inhabitants—that is 7 billion—so that they themselves may live? Impossible!

I am saying these words here at Al Azhar, before this assembly of scholars and ulema—Allah Almighty be witness to your truth on Judgment Day concerning that which I’m talking about now..."

Islamic Jihad Rages Across Europe, At Least 12 Dead In Paris Attack

January 7, 2015 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - At least 12 were killed in a military style jihadist attack today in Paris. A local synagogue was firebombed also, but casualty reports are scarce. This story is developing and we will be updating this piece as new information warrants, but the atrocity/war crime is believed to be in response to the publishing of drawings which Muslims find offensive.

At least one of the black-clad Muslim terrorists was calling out the traditional Muslim battle cry, Allahu Akbar. It's believed that the assault team was comprised of three men armed with battle rifles. French police responded but were powerless to do anything because they were unarmed, a policy which seems to be a growing trend in Europe.

DC is uncomfortable calling this an act terrorism, but the new reality of armed conflict in Europe forced Mr. Obama's hand. Ditto, the response of the French president who is obviously as clueless as Team Obama.

Statement by the President on the Attack in France: "I strongly condemn the horrific shooting at the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris that has reportedly killed 12 people. Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims of this terrorist attack and the people of France at this difficult time. France is America’s oldest ally, and has stood shoulder to shoulder with the United States in the fight against terrorists who threaten our shared security and the world. Time and again, the French people have stood up for the universal values that generations of our people have defended. France, and the great city of Paris where this outrageous attack took place, offer the world a timeless example that will endure well beyond the hateful vision of these killers. We are in touch with French officials and I have directed my Administration to provide any assistance needed to help bring these terrorists to justice." [source, WH website]

No mention of jihad, muslim or Islam...wouldn't want to provoke the tolerant religion of peace perhaps?

We ask all American alternative media sources to publish the so-called "Mohammed" cartoons. It's time to stand in solidarity as members of Western civilization.

The First Amendment is still alive here, no one tells us what not to publish...